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Plot: Considered by many to represent a low point in Steven Spielberg's career, 1990's Always did suggest something of a temporary drift in the director's sensibility. A remake of the classic Spe...( read more  )ncer Tracy film A Guy Named Joe, Always stars Richard Dreyfuss as a Forest Service pilot who takes great risks with his own life to douse wildfires from a plane. After promising his frightened fiancée (Holly Hunter) to keep his feet on the ground and go into teaching, Dreyfuss's character is killed during one last flight. But his spirit wanders restlessly, hopelessly attached to and possessive of Hunter, who can't see or hear him. Then the real conflict begins: a trainee pilot (Brad Johnson), a likable doofus, begins wooing a not-unappreciative Hunter--and it becomes Dreyfuss's heavenly mandate to accept, and even assist in, their budding romance. The trouble with the film is a certain airlessness, a hyper-inventiveness in every scene and sequence that screams of Spielberg's self-education in Hollywood classicism. Unlike the masters he is constantly quoting and emulating in Always, he forgets to back off and let the movie breathe on its own sometimes, which would better serve his clockwork orchestration of suspense and comedy elsewhere. Still, there are lovely passages in this film, such as the unforgettable look on Dreyfuss's face a half-second before fate claims him. John Goodman contributes good supporting work, and Audrey Hepburn makes her final screen appearance as an angel. --Tom Keogh

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  MrsJackHarkenss

  This is a very good movie. My mother and I both love it very much and it sort of hits home because both of my parents are firefighters. It just makes you think and I would love to be a fire bomber.

  posted 416 days ago

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  Audrey Hepburn
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  Brad Johnson
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  Dale Dye
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  Holly Hunter
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  John Goodman
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  Keith David
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  Marg Helgenberger
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  Richard Dreyfuss
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  Roberts Blossom

• Rated: (PG)
• Directed by: Steven Spielberg
• Genres: Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Drama
• Released: December 22, 1989
• DVD Released: July 20, 1999

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